June 13, 2014

THE GIVEAWAY: One blog reader will win a complimentary seat into Pocket Pop: Adobe Illustrator Basics for the Pocket Scrapper with Scrapaneer instructor Danielle Young. Danielle will walk you through the Adobe Illustrator interface at your own pace while you build six, colorful and coordinated Pocket-Style Journal Cards. This class is perfect for you if you want to build more dynamic and original pocket-style cards for yourself or others.

May 16, 2014

THE GIVEAWAY: One blog reader will win a copy of the This Year 2014 Summer Collection from Scotty Girl Design (). Shannon's This Year kit series is dedicated to documenting your favorite moments, no matter how big or small—they're perfect for digi and Project Life scrappers alike.

ABOUT SCOTTY GIRL DESIGN: Shannon, the designer behind SGD, is a full-time scrapbook designer with a passion for typography, geometric prints, and lots of color. Although a perfectionist at heart, Shannon's scrapbook mantra is "A beautiful thing is never perfect", and that includes her scrapbook pages. She loves sharing helpful scrapbooking tips, DIY projects, and yummy recipes on her blog, as well as her own scrapbook layouts.

MONTH OF MAGIC: Shannon's dedicated the entire month of April to scrapbooking Disney memories. Besides her new Disney kits, she has photo tips, Disney themed font suggestions, and more. Make sure to check out her blog so you don't miss anything.

ABOUT SCOTTY GIRL DESIGN: Shannon, the designer behind SGD, is a full-time freelance designer with a passion for typography, geometric prints, and lots of color. Although a perfectionist at heart, Shannon's scrapbook mantra is "A beautiful thing is never perfect", and that includes her scrapbook pages. She loves sharing helpful scrapbooking tips, DIY projects, and yummy recipes on her blog, as well as her own scrapbook layouts.

April 11, 2014

THE GIVEAWAY: One blog reader will win a seat in Here There Everywhere from the Silhouette master, Kerri Bradford. (Yes, that's what I call her!) This is a brand new workshop that is designed to help you document the best (and craziest) travel moments your way, using your Silhouette.

ABOUT THE CLASS: Join Kerri Bradford as she takes you on an amazing journey through the wonderful world of Silhouette Studio to create your own travel memory book. You’ll be learning all sorts of fun tricks and learn how to create shapes. Everything you make can be adapted to your own personal preference in color and album choice or you can make yours just like Kerri’s--with different photos, of course.

Destination themes? She’s got plenty of those! Amusement park, beach, big city, the great outdoors...you name it. She’ll show you how to use everything you create in class in a multiple of ways and in your own color choices. This educational suitcase is jam-packed with creative goodness that will help you record all those wonderful travel memories in no time. And the journey doesn’t stop there...you’ll be using those new-found skills for all your designing needs on any project.

Now here’s how you can save. Sign up before the May 19 start day and save $5 off the purchase price.

But wait, there’s more!

If you purchase by April 15 (a day everyone remembers) you’ll get the Let’s Go handwritten title kit for free! That’s a $6 value.

So go pack your bags and get signed up and ready to go. It’s going to be an amazing adventure!

MORE SAVINGS: Save 15% on orders $20+ using CZFAN at Kerri Bradford Studios.

THE GIVEAWAY: One blog reader will win a complimentary seat into The Poster Project with Scrapaneer instructor Kelly Sill. From sports to music, Scouts or ballet, team parties, year-end recitals, Prom and graduation, your kids extracurricular activities are a HUGE part of your life. And now is the perfect time to celebrate their victories and put their accomplishments on display.

ABOUT THE CLASS: In this self-paced workshop, you'll learn how to design posters in a massive scale, enlarge, extract, mount and much more. Class registration is open now! But you can win a spot.

March 14, 2014

THE GIVEAWAY: One blog reader will win a spot in Project Life Lessons, Expert photo tips, journaling solutions and organizing ideas for Project Life Scrapbookers, co-taught by Elise Blaha Cripe, Annette Haring and Megan Anderson.

ABOUT THE CLASS: Set yourself up for memory-keeping success in Project Life Lessons! Three experts have teamed up to share tons of insider secrets for making the most of any Project Life project. Packed with videos, downloads, handouts, and beautiful layout examples, Project Life Lessons includes three times the content you'd find in a typical 3-week workshop.

Three experienced Project Lifers to the rescue! Elise Blaha Cripe, Annette Haring, and Megan Anderson and will share their tried-and-true tips in the areas of photo management, storytelling, organization, assembly, and more. Whether your approach involves weekly spreads, monthly highlights, or something more custom, you can establish an effective working process that will help you make your albums a better reflection of who you really are and what matters most to you.

December 02, 2013

I always wished I had a ginormous operating budget for my blog to do an awesomely huge holiday giveaway as a way to say thank you for reading my blog.

You know, think Oprah's Favorite Things, but CZ Design-style. On Day One, you'd win an orange sweatshirt. On Day Two, you'd win three sessions with Joe, my physical therapist. On Day Three, a blue raspberry ICEE. And on Day Four, a new car!

But right now I only have the means for a One Days of Giveaways™ (just kidding, it's not trademarked), and I think it's pretty awesome.

Today, I have three copies of the brand spankin' new Photoshop Elements 12 for three of you. It's so new that I don't even have a copy yet. But of course, no copy of Photoshop Elements would be as much fun without digital goodies to play with, so each of the three winners will get their choice of any 10 of my products (no limits on what you choose).

TO ENTER: Just tell me what you are most looking forward to this month. That's the first way to enter.

A second way to enter? If you haven't already, please Like my Facebook page, come back here, post a comment and tell me that it is so.

A third way to enter? Follow me on Twitter, come back here and again, leave me a comment and tell me that it is so.

A fourth way to enter? If you already follow me on Twitter and Facebook, leave me a comment and tell me, "Um, Hello? Been doing that for, like, ever!"

This gives people a chance to enter multiple times.

This giveaway will stay open until Thursday night, and I'll post the winners on Friday.

Thank you for reading my blog. I genuinely appreciate your comments and your visits. I'm really going to work to make 2014 more fun, more real and more informative. And always, as crap free as possible.

This giveaway is now closed. Check back on Friday morning to see if you're a winner.